Ahoy, mateys! For today's Player Ready gaming livestream on PCWorld's Twitch and YouTube channels at 12:00 p.m. Pacific, PCWorld's Adam Patrick Murray and Macworld's Leif Johnson will be sailing the seven seas in the piratey survival MMO Atlas. Nor is this a humdrum noobie show where you end up watching someone punch trees and rocks for an hour. Leif and guest Joseph Bradford have been playing Atlas since its Early Access launch on December 21, and they already have a ship ready to go for a morning of treasure hunting, sailing, ship battles, and swashbuckling with zombies. To read this article in full, please click here

This week, the spring release season begins in earnest. "But Hayden, didn't we just finish up the holiday release season?" Yeah, tell me about it. But the Resident Evil 2 remake next Friday kicks off about a month and a half of non-stop games, from Total War: Three Kingdoms to Far Cry: New Dawn to The Division 2 and Anthem and more. So many more—and you'll find a few pertinent trailers below, as the marketing machines proceed apace as well. Also up this week: EA cancels yet another Star Wars game, Valve recaps its 2018 stats, Forza kills the Floss, IO opens a second studio, Epic updates its refund policy, and Mortal Kombat 11 gets the full reveal treatment. To read this article in full, please click here

Quicken is still the king of personal finance software, but the last several years have brought a legion of challengers to its throne. Just glance at our personal finance software guide to see how stiff the competition has gotten. Perhaps that's why Quicken 2019 has introduced a feature that devoted users have long desired: a browser-based companion app that lets them manage their finances from any internet-connected device. This streamlined tool gives Quicken a user-friendly vibe that will likely appeal to people weaned on web services like Mint and Nerd Wallet. To read this article in full, please click here

Imagine, all you've ever known are the dank tunnels of the Moscow subway system. You were raised there, amid the shacks and hovels of a city's survivors, attacked daily by vicious mutant animals, short on food and water, rarely venturing above-ground lest you succumb to radiation—or, more likely, other scavengers. And then one day you leave, and you find out it didn't have to be that way, that there's life outside Moscow. There are places the nuclear bombs didn't touch, or at least left a lighter impression, where people live on almost like nothing happened. Such relief, to have made it out alive. Such disappointment, that it didn't happen sooner. To read this article in full, please click here